Siena

The pollution created by most petroleum vehicles is a big cause of global warming. As pointed out by: Siena Kaplan, Brad Heavner, and Rob Sargent, "Plug-in cars ... produce less global warming pollution, emit little or no pollution from the tailpipe, and reduce our dependence on oil” (Plug-in Electric Vehicles Will Reduce Air Pollution). One of the most…

Waterfall Waterfall, the first book of the River of Time Series takes place in present time in Tuscany, Italy. Gabriella and her sister Evangelia are the willing and also reluctant daughters of their archeologist mother, Adri Betarrini. In the beginning of Waterfall, the women were searching around for tombs to excavate. Their mom finally found some tombs in Tuscany. The sisters realized their summer would be spent by working on the tombs. One day, Gabi and Lia decided to wander into Tomb 2,…

Benozzo Gozzoli was an influential Italian painter in the Renaissance. He helped impact art as we know it today in many ways. Some of his most acclaimed pieces included Madonna and Child Giving Blessings, Adoration of the Magi, and Women at the Tomb. His style of artwork was fresco which is a painting done expeditiously on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling with watercolor. Gozzoli was born around the year 1421 in a village in Italy called Sant’llaria a Colombano. His birth name was Benozzo…

or trade routes or the Jews caused it. The death rate was outstanding (not in the good way); an estimated 8 million deaths in the Middle East and 75 million in Europe. The mortality rate in Europe: 31%. The Middle East: 33%. “The mortality in Siena (Italy) began in May (1348). “It was a cruel and horrible thing; and I do not know where to begin to tell of the cruelty and the pitiless ways. It seemed that almost everyone became stupefied by seeing the pain. And it is impossible for the…

The Renaissance was a time of turmoil, change, and strong beliefs. The term renaissance itself means “rebirth”. Art was a significant and one of the only ways of expressing beliefs during that time period, but many people had different views on what art was worth and what exactly it was supposed to achieve. Some said that art is a commodity and a price should be put on a piece, while others believed that art is art; it doesn’t need a theme or meaning behind it whatsoever. However, throughout the…

During the play of The Miracle Worker, the acting was very realistic. In the beginning, I thought that it was going to boring because it is a play then I just assumed that the acting will probably going to be bad, but I am glad that I was completely wrong with that assumption. Director Dr. Joseph Arnold and Dialect Coach Kennedy Brown collaborated really well for this amazing production because visualizing and defining the style and structure of this play from 1880’s is definitely not easy.…

Describe how the facades of Italian cathedrals differed from those of French Gothic churches. Type your answer here: Gorgeous French gothic mode way to adapt to the art of Siena. He turned up the influence of the glitter and shine of textiles to adapt to the design of special material and design patterns. (3 points) 3. Briefly describe humanism. How did the Antique past or the classical past impact the humanists of 14th-century…

is determined to discover who killed her mother. Convinced clues will lie in her mother’s secret diaries, Anna makes a futile search for them in Ferrara and Venice. Unaware a man is stalking her, Anna returns to the family’s ancestral estate near Siena and meets her brother’s friend, Stefan Marlowe. As they fall in love, Anna trusts Stefan with the secrets of her diaries’ search. Anna’s controlling uncle tries to destroy their love by leading Anna to believe Stefan has betrayed her secrets.…

In Farm Shares Offer Local Produce Without the Labor by April Crehan, it is known that New England is not the best land to farm because of the winter. However the owner of Siena Farms, Chris Kurth, grows his crops in Concord and Sudbury. Kurth’s company goal was to have customers be able to eat locally in a New England farm all year round. Despite having challenges such as “clearing off plastic hoop greenhouses and dealing with losing many more substantial structures that collapsed under the…

did not show an expected spike in brain activity, for example. Similarly, some babies who showed a neural spike to the painful event did not alter their facial expressions at all. Pediatric pain researcher Carlo Bellieni (at the University Hospital Siena in Italy) asserts that even if the EEG approach to newborn pain assessment is improved, it still might not be clinically beneficial, since this method cannot be used to alter a panful situation in real time. Nevertheless, Bellieni agrees that…